digital_literacy

Day 1: Are you digitally literate PPT w/discussion
UPDATE: PPT has been updated, saved to shared drive. CPS questions to accompany PPT also created.

Day 2: Doing a formal website evaluation (using both real and "fake" sites)

UPDATE--Hoax Websites:

• NW Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
• All About Explorers: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
• Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/
• Buy Dehydrated Water: http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
• Dog Island: http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
• The Dangers of Bread: http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html
• Presidential Election: http://www.news3online.com/spread.php

Day 3: Reviewing domain names (p.8), addresses, extensions


Day 4: Global Warming activity (p.17)

Day 5: Looking at "fake" sites: How do we know they are not real? Looking at full URLs (trimming them back--"truncating"); "link" test

• Teach the "ABCs of Website Evaluation"
  • The ABCs of Website Evaluation.doc
• Evaluating Digital Information: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/evaluation/author.swf

Day 6: Search engines; comparison activity (p. 15)

Day 7: Google Advanced Search: Overview; reading a search results page

• BrainPop Video: "Internet Search"

Day 8:Google Search Challenge

Day 9: Citing sources

Day 10:Triangulation--take a fact from Wikipedia and find three sources to support using techniques learned in prior two weeks.

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Digital Literacy
a. Understanding the grammar of the Internet
b. Studying fact from fiction on the web—evaluating the value of a websit
c. Critical thinking when using the Internet
d. Choosing appropriate technology tools to problem-solve
e. Research fluency—advanced research techniques


Possible Resources

1. Welcome to the Information Literacy Resource Page.
2. Teacher Tips, Tools, and Tutorials
3. digitalliteracy
4. Nine Needs for Web Literacy | 21st Century Connections
5. Web Literacy for Educators
6. Web Literacy for Educators
7. 21st Century Literacy Skills

Ideas:
1. Start with the PowerPoint quiz
2. Google search/advanced search
3. Website evaluation/hoax sites; techniques for determining legitimacy
4. Understanding a web address
5. Citing sources; who owns/updates the information
6. Wikipedia and triangulation



What do we do at the end of the two weeks or quarter to show that they understand this topic?
Culminating Activity

• Must be applied learning
  • Google Search Challenge (practicing Google search tricks)
    • Google Search Challenge.doc
• Screencasting the search process using freescreencast.com (requires login) or Jingproject.com (requires download)
  • Developing a classroom wiki with individual student pages